TEACHERS’ AWARENESS OF CREATIVITY-RELATED BEHAVIOUR AMONG UPPER BASIC STUDENTS IN ILORIN METROPOLIS IN KWARA STATE
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2024
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Creativity among students in the classroom remains an important variable and a constantly
discussed topic especially among educators. In spite of the importance of creativity in the
classroom, studies had revealed that it has received a very little attention from the teachers.
This study, therefore, sought to assess teachers’ awareness of creativity-related behaviour
among upper basic students in Ilorin Metropolis in Kwara State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey
research was adopted for the study. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select
twenty (20) public and 20 private schools while purposive sampling technique was used to
select five science teachers across the forty (40) schools selected in the State bringing the total
number of the teachers to two hundred (200). Awareness of creativity-related behaviour
assessment scale by Nicolas Holt Creativity Test (NHCT) was adapted to measure teachers’
awareness of creativity-related behaviour among upper basic schools in Ilorin South, Kwara
State. The instrument contains 29 items rated on 4-Likert scale such as strongly agree = 4, agree
= 3, Disagree = 2 and strongly disagree =1. The instrument was validated by two experts in the
Department of Social Science Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. Reliability
coefficient of the instrument was found to be .72 using test re-test reliability technique on
students outside of the respondents involved in the study. In order to analyse the data collected
from the study, frequency counts and percentage was used to answer the raised research
questions while t-test statistical method was used to analyse the formulated null hypotheses.
The findings of the study revealed that teachers in Ilorin Metropolis have high awareness of
the creativity related behaviour among upper basic school students with 59%, there is
significant difference in the male and female teachers’ awareness of creativity related behavior
and there is significant difference in the less experienced and experienced teachers’ awareness
of creativity related behaviour among upper basic school students. In conclusion, based on the
findings the researcher recommended that continued efforts should be made by the school to
organize workshops, seminars and training for secondary school teachers irrespective of the
gender to equip them with the needed skills on how to identify early and nurture creative ability
of the students.